The University of Illinois Hospital & Clinics (UI Health) is looking to fill a part-time (.50) Staff Chaplain. This position is responsible for the delivery of pastoral care to patients, their families, students, and staff. This Staff Chaplin will also ensure that the religious and spiritual needs of patients, their families, students and staff are met

• Provide pastoral ministry (in a timely manner) to a variety of individuals taking into consideration multiple elements of cultural and ethnic diversity and social conditions, without imposing one’s own perspectives.
• Assess patient and family spiritual needs and assist families in using their faith in dealing with illness, trauma, and stress; visit newly admitted patients and patients with special requests; visit critical care areas; follow up with patients from previous visits as appropriate. Provide crisis intervention as necessary.
• Provide a range of skills, including empathic reflection, listening/attending, and appropriate use of religious/spiritual resources. Utilize the Cerner system for patient documentation.
• Maintain a working relationship between Pastoral Care and medical staff, nursing staff, and other departments.
• Contribute to the department’s plan for continuous quality improvement (CQI).
• Support an interdisciplinary approach to pastoral care.
• Participate in appropriate committees.
• Assess patients and families spiritual risk factors to include relationship with God/Deity, prior functioning levels, appropriateness and adequacy of support systems, reaction to illness and ability to cope.
• Provide pastoral counseling to patients and families regarding religious/spiritual, and emotional consequences of illness and/or disability, accessing and mobilizing family/community spiritual resources to meet identified needs. Provide crisis ministry and bereavement/grief ministry with patients and families.
• Initiate outside referrals for religious/spiritual community resources per need.
• Collaborate with the patient, family and multidisciplinary team to assure identified religious/spiritual/culturalneeds are addressed.
• Facilitate spirituality support group on the adult in-patient psychiatric unit, the rehabilitation unit, and otherunits as invited.
• Provide for coordination of services with community religious institutions.
• Educate patients and families regarding Advance Directive.
• Facilitate patient issues related to Advance Directive off-shifts during the week, (emergencies) week-ends,nd holidays.
• Contribute to the wider community through publication, teaching, and research.
• Adhere to all hospital standards, policies, and procedures. Adhere to the code of ethics of the Association of Professional Chaplains.
• Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.

• Master’s degree from an accredited theological school or religious studies, or equivalent, ordination or commissioning for ministry by a recognized religious group, and a current endorsement for chaplaincy by a recognized religious group.
• Board Certified Chaplain certifiable (4 CPE units Completed).
• Minimum of one (1) year hospital chaplaincy experience required.
• An awareness of self as pastoral caregiver, including attitudes, values, assumptions, strengths and weaknesses, and the ways that ministry affects persons.
• Knowledge of the hospital/clinic system and multi-disciplinary teams.
• An empathy for the problems experienced by patients and families; commitment to help the distressed.
• Interpersonal skills needed to work with distressed and anxious patients, families, and staff.